Non-fillable bottle



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(No Model.)

P. 0. BROWN.

NON-FILLABLE BOTTLE.

Patented Sept. 14, 1897.

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P. G. BROWN.

NON-FILLABLE BOTTLE.

No. 589,956. Patented Sept. 14,1897.

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NON-FILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,956, datedSeptember 14, 1897. Application filed April 10, 189 6 Serial No.586,967. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known thatLPHILIP CHARLES BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Brooklyn,county of Kin gs, State of New York, have inventeda new and useful Non-Fillable Bottle, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in non-fillable bottles; and theobjects 'of my improvements are to provide a bottle that cannot berefilled. I attain this objectby the means illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectional view of abottlehaving a short neck with a shoulder and having screw-threads below theshoulder on the outside of said neck; Fig. 2, a sectional view of theupper section of the neck or nozzle, having projections on the inside onalternate sides thereof and provided with screw-threads at its lowerextremity on the outside; Fig. 3, a view of the wooden valve weighted atits lower extremity or shank; Fig. 4:, a View of the band; Fig. 5, asectional view of the nonfillable bottle.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

I make any desired size of bottle of any suitable material. The neck ismade in two parts. The lower or short neck A (connected with the bottle)is made with a shoulder N, provided with screw-threads D on the outsidebelow the shoulder. The upper section of the neck or what may be calledthe nozzle B has at its lower extremity, on the outside, screw-threadsE, and is provided on the inside with two or more projections O onalternate sides of the neck or nozzle. These projections or horizontaltongues extend horizontally half-way or more across the nozzle.

Before the neck and nozzle A B are joined I insert the wooden valve orstopper K,which is weighted at its lower extremity or shank 11. Afterthe wooden valve with its weighted shank is put in place the fioatablevalve is outside of and on top of the contracted opening G. In myinvention it is immaterial whether the valve-seat is at the top of theneck or below the top. The weighted shank enters the contracted openingand extends below it.

The valve is made of wood, weighted at its the nozzle.

The wooden valve, weighted at its lower extremity, does not float whenthe bottle is upright, but when it is placed on its side then the woodenvalve floats as the fluid enters the bottle, and the suction caused bythe contracted opening causes the wooden valve to float into its properposition to close the contracted opening and stop the inflow of thefluid.

I am aware that bottles having screwthreads on the neck have been made,but this I do not claim broadly. I am also aware that non-fillablebottles have been made with valves of glass, &c.; butIam not aware nordo I believe that there has ever been made previous to my inventionthereof a non-fillable bottle having a nozzle provided with horizontalprojections or tongues integral with said nozzle and having a valve madeof wood, weighted at its lower extremity.

Y Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The combination of the valve the upper part being of wood the lower partweighted with porcelain, glass or similar substances, so constructed andweighted as to be semifioatable when horizontal but not fioatable whenvertical, said valve resting on a contracted opening in the bottle-neckbelow the top, of the nozzle having projections or tongues on the insideon alternate sides thereof, extending horizontally half-way or moreacross the nozzle and integral therewith cemented or otherwise securedto the neck of the bottle.

PHILIP CHARLES BROWN.

\Vitnesses CHARLES BENNs BROWN, FLORENCE ANNIE BROWN.

